The latest official campaign The Sacrifice has been crashing between 1st and 2nd chapters and the Tank wasn't showing up correctly in Chapter One. Looks like this was caused by the Coal'd Blood Campaign. Thanks to Keldorn for this information. I've removed this campaign from the main server. If it's ever updated with a fix or I find a way to have it on the server without causing issues to The Sacrifice then I'll add it back.

Keldorn has been busy. Precinct 84 has been updated to v9.1

- Finale difficulty ramped up but not in a way that will make it irritating. - Tank cheese strategy where you can ignore the tank and collect gas safely is now fixed/countered by spawning common infected every time you collect gas.- Glitch fixed where the police car can still be activated if someone is incapacitated inside the police station. This would cause the finale to break.- Removed the ladder off the army truck with the minigun. Simply jumping on the truck is faster. - Optimization: Added Ragdoll fader to finale area. This will improve the framerate by ridding of ragdolls quickly.- Added 3 more songs, Portal Still Alive, All I want for Christmas, Re Your Brains to the Nightclub. (For now a total of 5 random songs)-Changed the Circuit breaker model in map 3 in the tunnel to the breaker from HL2. Since the other model is deeply associated with panic events. Which is not the purpose of the breaker.

Precinct 84 v9.1 is now installed on Main Server.Coal'd Blood can be played on the Test Server on request.

Unfortunately there is no changelog but here are some notes from players leaving feedback on l4dmaps.com after the update..

chewaz

PROSupdate 5/24/2011 v.9- cool custom textures. - maps are still great- i love the new add on's for all the maps- finlale 100 times better- bot nav very good- gas pump dont go boom bots cant f... you over more then normal.!!!!!!

Ban3

I love the new camera angles when you finish this campaign, It's better than before :) On a sad note I do not like what you did with the security gate by the stairs, i loved opening it and hearing a different gate sound, I also am not happy with the room where you get ammo and weapons, it feels too wide and there shouldn't be four medkits if you already get 4 in the room you start in. Other than this the changes are great and I do not agree with what RainingMetal says at all.

Well, Crysis has been on my to-play list for a while now. I figured it was a good time to give it a run with my recent upgrade... what an awesome game! Just stunning. The open environment in this game really is something special. I cranked all settings to maximum. Even my new GTX580 was hurting with GPU usage up over 90% and the temp increasing 25'C. Outstanding graphics (albeit dX9 as I'm still on XP). The story is engaing with gameplay having variety and not too linear. The weapons are solid. Overall a great game and well worth playing especially if you can do so in all it's glory. AI isn't the best but I've seen much worse and the Elimination of General Kyong mission was rather lame. That and a few minor bugs throuhout the game are the only real negatives in my opinion.

Another excellent thing regarding this game is it's quite a challange being one of the hardest 'normal' mode games I've ever completed.

edit: I finished Crysis Warhead. Definitely not as polished as the original but still worth a run. Even though it's a standalone game you need to have played the first Crysis to know exactly what's going on. It also crashed on me about a dozen times throughout the game. I preferred the ending to Warhead to the ending of the original. Overall though the original Crysis is a much better game.

Well, many know the motherboard on my test server died a while back. I now have a better test server to work with. I set it up only to have the hard drive die! So I bought a new one and continued. Then my graphics card on my gaming rig died (fun times). I went out a bought a new graphics card but when I installed it I soon found out it takes up so much space in my case that I have to keep the hard drive cage outside of the case.. then I find out my power supply won't run it!!! Soooooooo, I got a new PSU as well. I'll get another case soon.

For those that don't know. I have two internet connections at home, one being for the test server. Game servers running 24/7 are run via NETWARS.

My games sure do look nice now! The biggest improvement for the games I own and have upped the graphics settings on is Far Cry 2. Next step is to get Win7 ultra as I'm still on XP and a new Lian-Li case.

I have a few servers to get running.Here's the order I'll be working on..

- Al checkpoint exit doors now have bars.- Checkpoint exit fixed on map 3 for versus.- More pills added to map 2 and the finale.- Versus score modified for map 2- Nav cleaned up a bit more.- Added a microphone to the club on map 3.- Made the HL2 trainseats on map 2 unique named to avoid conflicts with campaigns using the same model.

For at least a week, custom maps were not playing on the Far Cry 2 server. This has now been fixed. It was an admin issue on the server. Sorry to those who were expecting them to show up in the map-cycle!

Precinct 84 by Keldorn is now a complete campaign and a damn good one! I've just given it a playthrough. Unique features, great atmosphere and an excellent weapons/packs layout. The "Scavenge" style gameplay for the finale works very well and can be quite a challange. Precinct 84 is now on the main server. Thanks to Unknown and Racer X for helping me with the playtest.

Ever wondered how L4d2 gascan scavenge would play out in l4d1? Now for the first time you can! Experince the versus and coop Scavenge finale in the original game. Complete with a unique animated police vehicle cutscene!

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